Railroad-joint.



PATENTED FEB. 20, 1906.

G. M. MQOLURE. RAILROAD JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10,1905.

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W a mw No. 813,057. P..1TENTED PER-20, 1906. G. M. MoOLURE. RAILROAD JOINT.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 10, 1905.

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, GEORGE M. MCCLURE, 0F STERLING, KANSAS.-

RAILROAD-JOINT.

- To all whom it may concern: B6 it known that I, GEORGE M. MoOLURE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sterling, in the county of Rice, State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Joints and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such rail-section 1 which is not cut away has its inas will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper tains to make and use the I same.

This invention relates-to rail-joints.

One object of the invention isto provide a rail-joint'embod ing such charactenstics that the asset fish-p ates is obviated.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, durable, and ei'licient means for securing abutting ends of rail-sections together to prevent the usual jar or noise occasioned by thepassing of rolling-stock over the ordinary connections between, the abutting ends of rail-sections.

With these and other objects in view the.

present invention-consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as Wlll be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings,;and articularly pointed out in the appended c aim, it being uriderstood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within the scope of the claim without de arting from the spirit or sacrificing any 0. the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is anelevation of the connecting end portions of rail-sections. Fig. 2 is a top plan View. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the webs. of the rail-sections. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section. Fig. 5 is an elevationof the end portion. of

one of the rail-sections, illustrating the cut-.

flange upon the opposite side of the section 1 1 extending outwardly to the end 6 of said sec' tion and terminating upon an incline. corresponding to the inclinat1on of the end 6, there being a projecting tongue 7 extending beyond Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed Ji111&1'0,1905| Serial in. 264,639.

Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

the end 6 and the corresponding end of the base-flange, the said tongue 7 having lts-uper edge tapered inwardly, as at 8, the inner ace oftheprojection 7 terminating considerably short of the inner cut-away face of the section 1 with itsouterface flush with the outer face of thesection.

It will beobserved that that portion of the ner end, including its tread, web, and baseflange, beveled-upon an incline, as. at It will thus be understood that the section 1 is of three different thicknesses through its tread and web; portion, one end being of.

greater thickness than the other end and the tongue being-oi less thickness than said other end and that the three different thicknesses each has at least one perforation therein, the perforation 10 piercing the thickest part of the section, the perforations 11 piercing the v next adjacent portion, and the perforation 12 piercing the tongue 7, all of said perforations being arranged in alinement.

, It will be observed thatthe second or abuttingrail-section 2. is formed in the same'man- I her as is the rail-section 1, except thatthe rail-section 2 has. the-formations referred to in connection with section 1 formed upon the side opposite to. the said formations of section 1, so as to permit an overlapping of the sec tions.- In other words, the beveled ed e 13 of the rail-section. 2 has one end-of its flange terminated short of the inner end thereof and designed to meet the correspondingly inclined orbeveled edge of the longer portion of thebase-flangeof section 1, with the beveled-edge of the web portion engaging the tion of the section 2 has its inner :face designed to lie flush with theinner face offthe reduced end of the section 1, withits inner.

end beveled, as at 16, for engagement with the beveled edge 9- of the section 1, the baseflange upon the outer sideof the said section 2 being also beveled in a plane, parallel with the plane. of the inclination or beveled por tion 16, so as to meetthe correspondinglybeveled inner end of the flange 1 7 of the-baseflange of the sectionl. the tongue 17 of the asesection 2 being 01f less thickness than the per-- tion 1 5 of the'scetion. 2 and having its upper edge beveled, as at 18, the said tongue 17 be ing designed to lie [lush with the web 5 of sec-- tion 1, with its upper inwardly-inclined orv 1 tion 1, the perforations 2], registering with the aforesaid perforations 11, and the perforation 22 of section 2 registering with the aforesaid perforation 12 in the tongue 7.

Bolts or other suitable elements 23 are designed to be passed through the aforesaid alining perforation-s, and each is screwthreaded at its free end for the receptionof'a nu t 24', designed to have its inner face screwed upon the bolts and tightly into engagement with the outer l'ace ol the section 2.

From the loregei ng itwill be seen that there are two breaks in the trend and base-flange ott'he sections in close proximity to each other, but that these breaks or joints are inclined with'respeet to the plane of the raili sections and that he breaks or joints do not extend either at a right angle to the plane of the:rail-section's or entirely thereaeross. 1t willbeohserved-also that the web of a-con1- pleted rail-section is thiclun', and consequently stronger,- at the joint than is the ease with respect to the web portions between said joints, as'clearly shown in the drawings.

erase? It is obvious, however, that since I eliminate the usual fish-plates means should be enipioyed in lieu thereof at the joint of the abutting ends of the sections. I might state-that, if desired, the use of a bolt piercing the tongues '7 and 17 and the webs of the sections might be eliminated and the tongues 7 and 17 extended a greater distance against the webs of the rails between the under faces of the tread portions and the upper faces of the corresponding portions of the base flanges.

Notches or openings 25 and 26 may be formed in the base-flange of each section for the passage therethrough of a suitable spike or the like 27. s s

VVhatis claimed is A rail-"oint comprising abutting rail-seetions can including a tread, a web and a flange, the sections being halved and having their halved portions lapping, the web of each halved portion being extended laterally to the Width of the tread at its oppositeside from the cutaway portion excepting at its extreme end Where it is further cut away, said. other out-away port-ion having the tread omitted and being engaged beneath the tread of the opposite section, and securing means engaged through the overlapped portions of the rail-sections.

in testimony whereof I aliix my signature i n presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE M. MCCLURE. Witnesses (1. l JouNsoN, l K. lon'ricn. 

